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01 GILBERT METHOD OF MAKING SHIRTS.

No. 276,532. Patented Apr. 24, 1883'.

N. PETERS- Phuto-Lilhographar. WaahillgQon. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. GILBERT, OF GLENS FALLS, NEW YORK.

METHOD OF MAKING SHIRTS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 276,532, dated April 24, 1883. Application filed March 31, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. GILBERT, of Glens Falls, in the county of. Warren and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Method of Making Shirts; and I do hereby declare the Following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which Figure 1 shows a plan of the placket-facing and brace, put together and ready to be applied to a shirt. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same on line as :0 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 illustrates the manner in which the first seam is run in sewing on the facing. Fig.4.illustrates the manner in which the completing seams are run. Fig. 5 shows the placket-facing completed.

The object of my invention is to provide a method for applying placket-facings and a brace to the plackets of shirts, whether in the backs or inthe sleeves of the garment, whereby the garment is put togetherin a cheap and expeditious manner.

.In order that those skilled inthe art may make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried it out.

In the said drawings, Fig. 1, A is the wider facing-piece, which goes onto the outer lap of the placket, and B is the facing for the inside lap. The outer facing, A, is folded on theline a a, and a row of stitches is run to form a tinish on the outer flap, and the same row of stitches is utilized to secure the stay-piece C from b to d. The stay-piece 0 lies over and extends about an equal distance on each side of the meeting ends of pieces A and B, and is stitched throughout its edges, thereby holding the facing-pieces together and forming a stay against any ripping strain at the juncture of the placket when the garment is completed. The two facings A B and stay-piece'G, as one structure, is then put on the shirt. The placket is spread to its fullest extent, and the edge 01 K 1 of the structure A B C, on the reverse side, is sewed on the shirt (see Fig. 3) close to the edge of the placket-opening. The whole the line op, and at the same. time the tab q is sewed down and the facing of the placket is complete. A row or two of stitching, rr, may be run across the tabpiece.

In my improved methodof making the shirt the stitching of strip U does not appear on the outer surface when the shirt is finished. By actual experiment I have demonstrated that I can, by practicing my method as herein described, make a saving of about thirty cents per dozen on good quality of shirts, and make as durable shirts as against the same shirts made with the entire facing in one piece and passing across the juncture of the placket or made with the brace or stay-piece O sewed on after the placket-facing is put on.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The method of making placket-facings for shirts, consisting essentially. in placing together the ends of facing A and facing B,covering the joint with the strip 0, and then sccuring the structure A B G as an entirety onto the edge of the placket-openings by seams through A and B, substantially as set forth.

CHARLES A. GILBERT.

' Witnesses:

N. L. COLLAMER, R. K. EVANS. 

